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A chemical change. Physical changes can be undone. You cannot unburn paper.

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Is coloring on a white piece of paper a physical change or a chemical change?

A physical change.


Why is a car rusting a physical change?

no its chemical. physical changes is where the object chemical matter is not altered. ex- cuting a piece of paper is physical because you still have a piece of paper but burning the paper is chemical because a chemical change has taken place.


When a piece of paper is torn into two pieces has it undergone a chemical change or a physical change?

ANSWER:Its a physical change. If you burned it and it became ash, its a chemical change. Physical change means it made no change on a molecular level. Its still paper, just in two separate pieces.It is a physical change, as the chemical property of the paper remains unchanged.


What is the basic difference between physical change and chemical change?

Well a physical change is when you break something and you still have it like ripping a piece of paper. You still have the paper!! Then you have your chemical change .Which is when you do something to make it to the point were you cant keep it.(EX) Burning a piece of paper in the fire is a chemical change:) Because you cant get it back:)


Is ripping up a piece of paper a chemical change?

It is physical because the appearance hasn't changed at all and is the same paper still. For example, if you burned the paper that would be a chemical change because the paper turned into ash and is releasing gas which is a resulting chemical change that has just happened. Hope this helped :) -V

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tearing a piece of paper in half physical or chemical change?

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Is wadding a sheet of paper a chemical change?

Physical change. The paper is still a piece of paper; nothing happened to the chemical composition of it.


Is wadding up a piece of paper a chemical or physical change?

Physical- it is still a piece of paper. It can be unwadded. But if you burned it (a chemical change) it is no longer paper, and you cannot unburn something.


When a piece of paper burns is it a physical or a chemical change?

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Is folding a piece of paper a chemical change?

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Is coloring on a white piece of paper a physical change or a chemical change?

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Is coloring a piece of paper a physical or chemical change?

physical. because its still paper


Why is a car rusting a physical change?

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When a piece of paper burns is physical change or chemical change?

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Is burning a piece of paper chemical change or physical change?

Cheimical change


Is folding a piece of paper physical?

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Is crumbling a piece of paper a chemical or phyical change?

Physical